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Re: Blue Heron

MR bluebird — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:47:13 GMT

I agree with Blue heron. I see them almost every day.

Re: Blue Heron

Rough-Legged Hawk Enthusiast — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:43:55 GMT

Looks like Night Herons to me, not Blue Herons. It is still a good catch though.

So sorry I was looking at the wrong picture, the OP's pic is defintly a A Blue Heron

Silly Me

Re: Blue Heron

avwh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:13:50 GMT

Wissa, yours might be a juvenile - at least that pose matches the juvie pose in my Kaufman guide. Your blue heron image looks quite a bit like the black-crowned because it's in the "hunched pose", but the adult great blue doesn't look much like the black-crowned once it extends its considerable neck:

Black-crowned night heron (breeding plumage):

Re: Blue Heron

luv2bird — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:27:22 GMT

I take my camera with me when I walk. These were taken last fall at a nearby ponding basin of Black-crowned Night Herons.

Re: Blue Heron

Goose — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:54:04 GMT

sorry! Apparently I'm not as good as I think I am...

Re: Blue Heron

wissa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:23:31 GMT

weeeeeeeeeeeee! I got one right! (my first one)

Re: Blue Heron

birdseye — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:37:48 GMT

i agree wissa, a blue heron...black shoulder patch, and head markings point it out.

Re: Blue Heron

Goose — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:44:54 GMT

To me that looks like a black crowned night-heron, but I'm probably wrong.

Blue Heron

wissa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:07:53 GMT

http://www.whatbird.com/forums/photos/wissa/picture71600.aspx

Took a morning walk around the canal.